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    <title>Quality assurance and university rankings in higher education in the Asia Pacific</title>
    <subTitle>challenges for universities and nations</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kaur, Sarjit</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Morshidi Sirat</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Tierney, William G.</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Universiti Sains Malaysia</namePart>
    <namePart>Institut Penyelidikan Pendidikan Tinggi Negara</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Minden], Pulau Pinang</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>National Higher Education Research Institute</publisher>
    <publisher>Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia</publisher>
    <publisher>Distributors, Universiti Sains Malaysia Co-operative Bookshop, Universiti Sains Malaysia</publisher>
    <publisher>MPH Distributos</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xvi, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The academic ranking of world universities and the performance of Asia Pacific universities /  Ying Cheng and Nian Cai Liu -- The global knowledge economy and the culture of comparison in higher education / Simon Marginson -- Beyond university rankings / Subramaniam Venkatraman -- Quality and graduate education / William G. Tierney and Douglas Burleson -- Quality dilemmas with regional education hubs and cities / Jane Knight -- Attitudes to ranking, comparing German, Australian, and Japanese experiences / Ellen Hazelkorn -- Measuring up? The competitive position of South East Asian higher education / Anthony Welch -- Quality assurance, university rankings and China's higher education, the case of Wuhan University / Rui Yang -- Going for global university ranking through the accelerated programme for excellence (APEX) in Malaysia / Sarjit Kaur and Morshidi Sirat -- Quality assurance and the Thai University ranking system / Paul T.J. James</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">editors, Sarjit Kaur, Morshidi Sirat, William G. Tierney</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Education, Higher</topic>
    <geographic>Asia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <topic>Accrediation</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <topic>Evaluation</topic>
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      <title>Academic imprint series / Penerbit USM</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9789838614443</identifier>
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